Usable Pasts Social Practice And State Formation In American Art

Author : Larne Abse Gogarty
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004471559

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Usable Pasts: Social Practice and State Formation in American Art by Larne Abse Gogarty Pdf

Usable Pasts addresses projects dating to two periods in the United States that saw increased financial support from the state for socially engaged culture. By analysing artworks dating to the 1990s by Suzanne Lacy, Rick Lowe and Martha Rosler in relation to experimental theatre, modern dance, and photography produced within the leftist Cultural Front of the 1930s, this book unpicks the mythic and material afterlives of the New Deal in American cultural politics in order to write a new history of social practice art in the United States. From teenage mothers organising exhibitions that challenged welfare reform, to communist dance troupes choreographing their struggles as domestic workers, Usable Pasts addresses the aesthetics and politics of these attempts to transform society through art in relation to questions of state formation.

Author : Cameron Cartiere,Martin Zebracki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317572022

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The Everyday Practice of Public Art by Cameron Cartiere,Martin Zebracki Pdf

The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art, Space, and Social Inclusion is a multidisciplinary anthology of analyses exploring the expansion of contemporary public art issues beyond the built environment. It follows the highly successful publication The Practice of Public Art (eds. Cartiere and Willis), and expands the analysis of the field with a broad perspective which includes practicing artists, curators, activists, writers and educators from North America, Europe and Australia, who offer divergent perspectives on the many facets of the public art process. The collection examines the continual evolution of public art, moving beyond monuments and memorials to examine more fully the development of socially-engaged public art practice. Topics include constructing new models for developing and commissioning temporary and performance-based public artworks; understanding the challenges of a socially-engaged public art practice vs. social programming and policymaking; the social inclusiveness of public art; the radical developments in public art and social practice pedagogy; and unravelling the relationships between public artists and the communities they serve. The Everyday Practice of Public Art offers a diverse perspective on the increasingly complex nature of artistic practice in the public realm in the twenty-first century.

Author : Cameron Cartiere,Shelly Willis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135894689

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The Practice of Public Art by Cameron Cartiere,Shelly Willis Pdf

This exciting new collection of essays by practicing artists, curators, activists, art writers, administrators, city planners, and educators offers divergent perspectives on the numerous facets of the public art process. The volume also includes a useful graphic timeline of public art history.

Author : Cindy Persinger,Azar Rejaie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783030436094

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Socially Engaged Art History and Beyond by Cindy Persinger,Azar Rejaie Pdf

What is socially engaged art history? Art history is typically understood as a discipline in which academics produce scholarship for consumption by other academics. Today however, an increasing number of art historians are seeking to broaden their understanding of art historical praxis and look beyond the academy and towards socially engaged art history. This is the first book-length study to focus on these growing and significant trends. It presents various arguments for the social, pedagogical, and scholarly benefits of alternative, community-engaged, public-facing, applied, and socially engaged art history. The international line up of contributors includes academics, museum and gallery curators as well as arts workers. The first two sections of the book look at socially engaged art history from theoretical, pedagogical, and contextual perspectives. The concluding part offers a range of provocative case studies that highlight the varied and rigorous work that is being done in this area and provide a variety of inspiring models. Taken together the chapters in this book provide much-needed disciplinary recognition to socially engaged art history, while also serving as a springboard to further theoretical and practical work.

Author : Nicolas Lampert
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781595583246

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A PeopleÕs Art History of the United States by Nicolas Lampert Pdf

Most people outside of the art world view art as something that is foreign to their experiences and everyday lives. A People’s Art History of the United States places art history squarely in the rough–and–tumble of politics, social struggles, and the fight for justice from the colonial era through the present day. Author and radical artist Nicolas Lampert combines historical sweep with detailed examinations of individual artists and works in a politically charged narrative that spans the conquest of the Americas, the American Revolution, slavery and abolition, western expansion, the suffragette movement and feminism, civil rights movements, environmental movements, LGBT movements, antiglobalization movements, contemporary antiwar movements, and beyond. A People’s Art History of the United States introduces us to key works of American radical art alongside dramatic retellings of the histories that inspired them. Stylishly illustrated with over two hundred images, this book is nothing less than an alternative education for anyone interested in the powerful role that art plays in our society.

Author : Suzanne Lacy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:30000045767724

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Mapping the Terrain by Suzanne Lacy Pdf

"In this wonderfully bold and speculative anthology of writings, artists and critics offer a highly persuasive set of argument and pleas for imaginative, socially responsible, and socially responsive public art.... "--Amazon.

Author : Kristina Olson,Eric J. Schruers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art and social action
ISBN : 1138325902

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Social Practice Art in Turbulent Times by Kristina Olson,Eric J. Schruers Pdf

This volume is an anthology of current groundbreaking research on social practice art. Contributing scholars provide a variety of assessments of recent projects as well as earlier precedents, define approaches to art production, and provide crucial political context. The topics and art projects covered, many of which the authors have experienced firsthand, represent the work of innovative artists whose creative practice is utilized to engage audience members as active participants in effecting social and political change. Chapters are divided into four parts that cover history, specific examples, global perspectives, and critical analysis.

Author : Miwon Kwon
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 026261202X

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One Place after Another by Miwon Kwon Pdf

A critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s. Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and universality. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as site-specific art intersected with land art, process art, performance art, conceptual art, installation art, institutional critique, community-based art, and public art, its creators insisted on the inseparability of the work and its context. In recent years, however, the presumption of unrepeatability and immobility encapsulated in Richard Serra's famous dictum "to remove the work is to destroy the work" is being challenged by new models of site specificity and changes in institutional and market forces. One Place after Another offers a critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s and a theoretical framework for examining the rhetoric of aesthetic vanguardism and political progressivism associated with its many permutations. Informed by urban theory, postmodernist criticism in art and architecture, and debates concerning identity politics and the public sphere, the book addresses the siting of art as more than an artistic problem. It examines site specificity as a complex cipher of the unstable relationship between location and identity in the era of late capitalism. The book addresses the work of, among others, John Ahearn, Mark Dion, Andrea Fraser, Donald Judd, Renee Green, Suzanne Lacy, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Richard Serra, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Fred Wilson.

Author : Arie Wallert,Erma Hermens,Marja Peek
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995-08-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892363223

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Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice by Arie Wallert,Erma Hermens,Marja Peek Pdf

Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam. Twenty-five contributors representing museums and conservation institutions throughout the world provide recent research on historical painting techniques, including wall painting and polychrome sculpture. Topics cover the latest art historical research and scientific analyses of original techniques and materials, as well as historical sources, such as medieval treatises and descriptions of painting techniques in historical literature. Chapters include the painting methods of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch 17th-century landscape painting, wall paintings in English churches, Chinese paintings on paper and canvas, and Tibetan thangkas. Color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.

Author : Howard Saul Becker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520043863

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Art Worlds by Howard Saul Becker Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271047208

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Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation, 1929Ð1939 by Anonim Pdf

The news media have given us potent demonstrations of the ambiguity of ostensibly truthful representations of public events. Jordana Mendelson uses this ambiguity as a framework for the study of Spanish visual culture from 1929 to 1939--a decade marked, on the one hand, by dictatorship, civil war, and Franco's rise to power and, on the other, by a surge in the production of documentaries of various types, from films and photographs to international exhibitions. Mendelson begins with an examination of El Pueblo Español, a model Spanish village featured at the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona. She then discusses Buñuel's and Dalí's documentary films, relating them not only to French Surrealism but also to issues of rural tradition in the formation of regional and national identities. Her highly original book concludes with a discussion of the 1937 Spanish Pavilion, where Picasso's famed painting of the Fascist bombing of a Basque town--Guernica--was exhibited along with monumental photomurals by Josep Renau. Based upon years of archival research, Mendelson's book opens a new perspective on the cultural politics of a turbulent era in modern Spain. It explores the little-known yet rich intersection between avant-garde artists and government institutions. It shows as well the surprising extent to which Spanish modernity was fashioned through dialogue between the seemingly opposed fields of urban and rural, fine art, and mass culture.

Author : Marcus Collins,Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : London Publishing Partnership
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781913019051

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Why Study History? by Marcus Collins,Peter N. Stearns Pdf

Considering studying history at university? Wondering whether a history degree will get you a good job, and what you might earn? Want to know what it’s actually like to study history at degree level? This book tells you what you need to know. Studying any subject at degree level is an investment in the future that involves significant cost. Now more than ever, students and their parents need to weigh up the potential benefits of university courses. That’s where the Why Study series comes in. This series of books, aimed at students, parents and teachers, explains in practical terms the range and scope of an academic subject at university level and where it can lead in terms of careers or further study. Each book sets out to enthuse the reader about its subject and answer the crucial questions that a college prospectus does not.

Author : Corcoran Gallery of Art,Sarah Cash,Emily Dana Shapiro,Jennifer Carson
Publisher : Lucia Marquand
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Painting
ISBN : 1555953611

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Corcoran Gallery of Art by Corcoran Gallery of Art,Sarah Cash,Emily Dana Shapiro,Jennifer Carson Pdf

This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.

Author : Larne Abse Gogarty
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783956795626

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What We Do Is Secret by Larne Abse Gogarty Pdf

On the aesthetic and intellectual affinities between recent art and conspiracy. Written in the wake of the far-right populist turn in Europe, the US, and beyond, What We Do Is Secret addresses aesthetic and intellectual affinities between recent art and conspiracy, proposing a theory of conspiracy that is not primarily concerned with conspiracy theory. Here, conspiracy is not used pejoratively but is instead examined as an accusation leveled at varying modes of political thought and action, from often opposing quarters, because it is seen as undermining “common sense” and reasonable behavior. This inquiry takes shape across chapters on the politics of post-internet art aesthetics; the sublime and possessive individualism in recent “critical” art; Cady Noland’s security fences and silkscreens of the Symbionese Liberation Army; mutuality, secrecy, and improvisation in the work of Ima-Abasi Okon; and identity, narrative, and recent figurative painting. Across these chapters, Larne Abse Gogarty discusses the relationship between culture and contemporary liberalism, following on from David Lloyd’s proposition that through its compensatory qualities, the aesthetic sphere naturalizes forms of life lived under the rule of property. What kind of art can work against this? Can art exist as a conspiracy capable of corroding that rule?

Author : Linda Weintraub
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520273610

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To Life! by Linda Weintraub Pdf

This title documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farms anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkows 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet by global warming.